Strange Things Are Afoot.

voltee ♦ October 16, 2010 ♦ 3 Comments

Item: Tank Color/Fabric: Olive, cotton Designer: Sparkle and Fade Where Purchased: Urban Outfitter Years Owned: 4
Ah, well, it is time again to make some decisions. Sunday night is my cut off for votes on this round. Please vote. It’s the democratic way! I have heard some protests, about not knowing enough about fashion to vote. I object! If you’re very, very wrong, I won’t listen to you any way, so there’s nothing to fear. Please go back and vote if you haven’t yet. It’s fun!
Also, if you’ve enjoyed reading along to my closet clean out, will you tell your friends for me? I would be so excited and proud. Yet humble, of course…
Ok, that being said, I lay before you today a tank top that was one of my dollar finds. Somehow, this has ended up being my Rehearsal Tank. I’m not sure why I don’t wear this in real life. Maybe it’s too lingerie-like? But the lace is fake, and that’s kind of weird. Like one of those tuxedo tee-shirts. But what do you want for a dollar?
Anyway, the first rehearsal I remember wearing this to was the one for Company where we were going to practice stripping. Since I’ve already written about that, here, I won’t repeat myself. Except to say that I think it was rather sassy of me to chose something lingerie-like for that rehearsal.
I also remember wearing it to a Cabaret rehearsal. And, surprise! It ended up being a photo shoot that none of us knew about.
Cabaret was one of the most difficult shows I’ve ever done. It was so close to in time to Company, and I was transitioning from being the Front Desk Manager at MAC to a Personal Trainer. My schedule worked like this; open gym and work desk from 5:30am until 2, shadow Trainers from 3-6, and be at rehearsal from 7-11. And repeat. Needless to say, I was exhausted.
Plus, the choreographer had little patience for me because I wan’t a trained dancer. So it was a difficult rehearsal process.
Since we didn’t know the pictures were happening, none of us brought make-up or wore costume appropriate clothing. We shared a single tube of red lipstick, and wore gloves and black wigs with our rehearsal clothes.
I believe the lovely and talented Jen Kiaba took the pictures. It’s all a little hazy in that time due to lack of sleep. As sad as I was about my make-up free and sleep deprived appearance, this shoot resulted in one of my favorite pictures ever of Nate and me:
Beautiful shot, Jen! Nate looks positively angelic! And I don’t like his hair long as a rule, but it looks great in this picture. Very… soap star-esque. Dare I say…Fabio??
I had forgotten about this picture until I found it, randomly, in my MySpace account today. Here is the caption; “yea…baby do your work…my baby is gettin educated”. I don’t know who wrote that, because I certainly didn’t! But it’s sort of brilliant. I like it. I guess that’s what was happening…
The other quite hilarious and totally random thing that transpired from that photo shoot was this:

One day at rehearsal my friend Chris said “Did you see your face next to Susan Sarandon the Poughkeepsie Journal’s website?” Well, no, I had not!
We never found out why this happened. But my face was the banner on the entertainment page for a little while. Definitely one of the weirdest things that has ever happened to me.
Focusing now on the top- is it worth saving if I only wear it to rehearsals? I guess I do always need rehearsal clothes. What say you?

**I haven’t worn this, even to rehearsal.  But still I can’t toss it.  I can’t decide!